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No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…e “the unconstitutional policies of President Bush in his promotion of the USA Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps and eavesdropping, and the deceptive manner in which he led America into an undeclared, unprovoked, and preemptive war against Iraq;” have protested against abortion, and have publicly resisted “‘Seeker-Friendly,’ and ‘Purpose-Driven,’ and ‘Emerging Church’ church growth movements.” He has, Baldwin told me, some 300 pastors across the c…

Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later

By Richard Amesbury

…sed to say. And really these Jesuits did get in the way.” This weekend, thousands gathered at the UCA to mark the twentieth anniversary of the assassinations by honoring the memory of those who died: Ignacio Ellacuría, a philosopher and theologian who served as the university’s rector; its academic vice-rector, the pioneering social psychologist Ignacio Martín-Baró; Segundo Montes, chair of the sociology department and the university’s human right…

Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump

By Patricia Miller

…itically. One source of dismay for some Catholics is that so many of their number broke decisively toward Trump and were critical to his victory in the Rust Belt swing states. “The Catholic vote went for Trump and many Catholics joined the non-voting defectors. That’s a scandal that calls into question the moral standing and integrity of most—not all—Catholics today,” Marquette University moral theologian Dan Maguire told RD. To many, Catholic sup…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…ban our organization” DeMuth declared “I’m delighted that now, back in the USA, authorities have made no effort to stop us, either by lawfare or violence,” then adding, to the delight of the audience, “but, given ‘defund the police’ I’m not sure they could.” In fact, NatCon in Brussels would become almost a mythical event over the course of the day, referenced by many speakers as an example of bravery in the face of adversity. In Brussels, DeMuth…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…ion that most reporters aren’t religious. Cathy Lynn Grossman, formerly at USA Today and now at Religion News Service, tweeted, “I’ve only worked in secular media where the newsrooms were full of believers.” There’s a difference, obviously, between being religious and being capable of writing intelligently about religion; it’s the latter that is most critical in a religion reporter, not the former. But I saw complaints in the Twitter chat that mai…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…o hell, psychological instability of returning veterans with unprecedented numbers committing suicide, veteran services stretched thin—these are only a few items that come to mind though they only scratch the surface of the psychic, social, and cultural scars inflicted by this war. Historically and across cultures, warfare is often the most religious event in the life of any society. Is it any different here, in America, with this war? The patriot…

Bishop Sends Shockwave, Slaying the Sacred Cow of Individual Salvation [Includes an online comic]

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ch, with all its problems, but every church will hear and heed Rev. Schori’s brave words—we are each other’s keepers and if we forget that, it will surely be the demise of us all. From Integrity USA, in partnership with Douglas Gould and Co., comes this comic, “The Ripple,” connecting the history of the Episcopal Church with the struggle for LGBT equality:…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…truggles as a kid growing up in the Christian playground known as Heritage USA. The Bakker empire fell in the late 1980s after his mother accidently overdosed, and news broke about his dad’s affair with Jessica Hahn. Later his dad would spend five years in prison on a fraud conviction. In his teen years, Bakker turned to drinking and partying to fit in and to soothe his pain. Feeling condemned for his behavior drove him further away from the churc…

Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth Reveal Purity Culture Is More Than Just an Evangelical Problem

By M. Cooper Minister

…. Also unable to achieve denominational consensus, the Presbyterian Church USA continues to allow local congregations to make their own decisions on LGBT issues. Arguments against LGBT inclusion often rely on the presumed naturalness of binary gender. Like evangelicals, they may quote Genesis 1:27, “male and female he created them.” Support for the gender binary is not a fringe evangelical issue. These ongoing realities reveal a more pervasive bel…

Christian Nationalism is Authentically Christian — And According to a New Poll Most White Evangelicals are Supporters

By Chrissy Stroop

…udience sing-along of Lee Greenwood’s god awful country hit “God Bless the USA” as the grand finale of our school talent shows. High school students were also put to work mailing out right-wing voter guides on school time, while elementary students dutifully pledged allegiance to the American flag, the Christian flag, and the Bible each morning. I’ve belabored the point here at RD before, and it’s worth stating again: the political activities and…